19-06-2020 12:42 AM
Why is it the Samsung soundbar is not recognized or found with Google assistant.
TV works fine through google.
I have both Google assist and Alexa.
TV and soundbar works with Alexa, but only tv is recognized with google. Smartthings in Google only shows tv and can control sound, voice etc, but wont find soundbar.
No issues with Alexa.
Just lucky I have both voice assistants?
But generally alexa is much better adding things than Google.
22-06-2020 10:02 PM
Bixby on my phone.
Most people use either Google or Alexa assistants. You would think that since Samsung makes Android devices they would make their hardware work with Google better.
I have a Note 9 and I can't even stream using smartview (Samsung equivalent to cast).
22-06-2020 10:16 PM
22-06-2020 10:35 PM
26-06-2020 08:18 AM
26-06-2020 10:13 AM
Anyway... going back to the issue for google users, unfortunately I think a true integration between Samsung and Google could be unlikely as it stands. This because I think both Samsung and Google are not really interested in investing in a collaboration seeing that both companies are moving towards expanding their own portfolio.
But this is where I see google having the advantage having the better smart home platform, which is where the future is heading, where as Binxy is a joke when compared. I dont see Samsung spending too much money in developing this either as they probably realized it will never reach the amount of users that google has and it will never be near as good, so dont be surprised if they stop it.
I wouldnt be surprised if Google, although perhaps unlikely, even made a bold move into the Soundbar market in the future, a bit like sonos did, which would actually be quite awesome. They are already planning on releasing a new speaker that will compete with the sonos one, and also seem to be developing a new smart dongle that in theory turn your old TV (or new) into a full google home smart TV experience, very exciting stuff for google users.
My suggestion to Samsung is to ditch any ideas of further developing their smart home platform and spend more in developing what they know best, TVs and Soundbars. And if they are clever and can convince Google to collaborate with a true integration, they will be very much ahead of the game. Or they just stick with Amazon.
Its a hard truth to accept that we who owns this soundbar Q90R, among other devices from Samsung, will just have to live with the fact that we still have a great sounding soundbar but thats about it. I will have to settle with using my google chromecast as the audio soutce to feed the soundbar, it works but its not optimal for what I would like to achive.
26-06-2020 10:42 AM
26-06-2020 03:06 PM
I totally get your point, the issue Im having is that I really dont care too much about the voice assistance feature in my smart home, even though I do use if for playing my music etc sometimes.
The main reason I want full integration with my samsung and google is that I prefer to use the google home platform for all my smart devices, and when it comes to music in multiple rooms it would just be so much better to have the samsung soundbar directly connected via WIFI to my google home ecosystem so I can put it in my speaker group. Its probalbly a nightmare to intergrate the two systems but it would be a great feature.
If that were possible my soundbar would be so much more than just a TV speaker without any other decices involved.
25-12-2020 02:35 AM - last edited 25-12-2020 02:39 AM
I also experience the same issue. I bought Q950T last week, but connecting SmartThings to Google Home only allows me to see Q950T on the Google Home app, but I couldn't control it via Google Assistant.
If you only want to command Google Assistant to play music on a soundbar, my solution is to pair a soundbar, via Bluetooth, with the Google Home app and set it as a default speaker instead of its own Google Home's tiny built-in speaker.
Here's a walkthrough.
Open Google Home app > Settings > Rooms and Groups > Choose your room, ex Living Room > Living Room Speaker > Default Speaker > Pair Bluetooth Speaker (see an attached screenshot)
Don't forget to set a Samsung soundbar to BT pairing mode.
Then, music will be played on my Q950T soundbar anytime I command Google Assistant. I hope this will be helpful!